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Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do? by shiftpgdn on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @02:04PM (#7774113)
At this point this seems to be the ONLY solution. Knocking Comcast off the internet for 24 hours would result in a lot of attention towards net neutrality and their lackadaisical attitude towards peering.
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Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do? by diminoten on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @02:27PM (#7774263)
They wouldn't be knocked off the Internet, they'd just have to route their packets through less efficient paths, which would slow everything down significantly.

The Internet would more or less shut down from traffic overload if all of Comcast's customers lost all the shortcuts that Comcast has created for them to content.

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Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do? by jeremyjh on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @02:49PM (#7774409)
Well the CDN could alternatively blackhole these networks.
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